Pausanias Analysis

Passage 7.12.2

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Passage 7.12.2: Callikrates accuses Menalkidas of treachery and seeks his death.

Historical Skeptical

Greek Text

βεβαιοῖ δὴ τὸ λεγόμενον ὡς ἄρʼ ἦν καὶ πῦρ ἐς πλέον ἄλλου πυρὸς καῖον καὶ λύκος ἀγριώτερος λύκων ἄλλων καὶ ὠκύτερος ἱέραξ ἱέρακος πέτεσθαι, εἴγε καὶ Καλλικράτην ἀνοσιώτατον τῶν τότε Μεναλκίδας μὲν ὑπερῆρεν ἀπιστίᾳ, Καλλικράτην, ὃς ἐλάσσων παντοίου λήμματος καὶ ἐπὶ οὐδενὶ οἰκείῳ κέρδει πόλει τῇ Ἀθηναίων ἀπηχθημένος παυσάμενον μὲν τῆς ἀρχῆς Μεναλκίδαν ἐδίωκεν ἐν τοῖς Ἀχαιοῖς θανάτου δίκην· πρεσβεῦσαί τε γὰρ Ἀχαιῶν ἐναντία ἔφασκεν αὐτὸν ἐς Ῥώμην καὶ ἐς τὰ μάλιστα γενέσθαι πρόθυμον ἐξελέσθαι τὴν Σπάρτην συνεδρίου τοῦ Ἀχαιῶν.

English Translation

Indeed it confirms the saying that there is a fire burning more fiercely than other flames, and a wolf wilder than other wolves, and a hawk swifter in flight than other hawks—if in fact Callikrates, the most impious of all men at that time, surpassed even Menalkidas in treachery. Callikrates, who, inferior in every form of gain and not acting for any private profit, yet hated by the Athenian city, pursued Menalkidas, after his retirement from office, before the Achaeans, pressing for his death sentence. He asserted that Menalkidas had conducted an embassy contrary to the interests of the Achaeans at Rome, and had especially exerted himself zealously to detach Sparta from the confederacy of the Achaeans.

Proper Nouns

Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί) other
Kallikrates (Καλλικράτης) person
Menalkidas (Μεναλκίδας) person
Sparta (Σπάρτη) place Q5690 Pleiades
Athens (Ἀθῆναι) place Q844930
Rome (Ῥώμη) place Q220 Pleiades
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